This paper traces the shifts in treatments of intermediate groups among some liberal and democratic political theorists in the 18th and 19th centuries. The decades of the late 18th and early 19th centuries are traditionally understood to encompass the emergence of fully liberal political and...

For more than a century, careful readers of the Green Bag have known that “[t]here is nothing sacred in a theory of law...which has outlived its usefulness or which was radically wrong from the beginning...The question is What is the law and what is the true public policy?” Professor Orin...

There is greater continuity than has often been recognized between the ancient constitutionalism of medieval institutions that could check early-modern monarchs, of particular liberties and jurisdictional patchworks, and the ostensibly rationalistic, uniform, and contractarian modern...